{"id":20248,"date":"2015-10-09T19:24:51","date_gmt":"2015-10-10T02:24:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spijue.wpengine.com\/news\/alaska-airlines-debuts-bigger-overhead-bins\/"},"modified":"2015-10-09T19:24:51","modified_gmt":"2015-10-10T02:24:51","slug":"alaska-airlines-debuts-bigger-overhead-bins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/news\/alaska-airlines-debuts-bigger-overhead-bins\/","title":{"rendered":"Alaska Airlines debuts bigger overhead bins"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Alaska Airlines is rolling out a new feature that fliers are sure to appreciate \u2014 larger overhead storage bins.<\/p>\n<p>The \u201cSpace Bins\u201d debut today as Alaska receives its first new Boeing 737-900 aircraft. The bins will be seen first on the new aircraft and will be installed on other aircraft over time.<\/p>\n<p>The bins promise 50 percent more space than is available on Alaska\u2019s existing 737s \u2014 increasing capacity from 117 to 174 bags on a jet with 181 seats.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cVirtually everyone can carry on a bag, which is fantastic,\u201d Alaska Airlines marketing vice president Sangita Woerner told USA Today\u2019s Ben Mutzabaugh.<\/p>\n<p>That newspaper was first to report the development.<\/p>\n<p>According to Alaska Airlines, about half of its fleet of aircraft will be upgraded to the new bins by the end of 2017.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alaska Airlines is rolling out a new feature that fliers are sure to appreciate \u2014 larger overhead storage bins. The \u201cSpace Bins\u201d debut today as Alaska receives its first new Boeing 737-900 aircraft. The bins will be seen first on the new aircraft and will be installed on other aircraft over time. The bins promise [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":107,"featured_media":20249,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_stopmodifiedupdate":false,"_modified_date":"","wds_primary_category":4,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[230],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-20248","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-state-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20248","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/107"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20248"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20248\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20249"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20248"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20248"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20248"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=20248"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}